Dear LoCo Council, Monthly reports would be much better automatically generated by a combination of the event organiser on the loco directory and a simple blog system that did not have to be manually tied into the greater blog network of planets.
We fail at making things easy and instead insist upon the manual and monotonous. A re-instance of monthly reports do not make them more appealing, they make running a LoCo a chore rather than good fun. I would rather have the LoCo council focusing on how to recruit and organise developers effectively to put these problems to rest instead of focusing solely on social solutions. Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 13:15 +0100, Laura Czajkowski wrote: > Aloha, going through the approvals and re approvals it's evident some > teams do use monthly reports to let their team and others know what they > are up to, but a lot don't. Monthly reports > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BuildingCommunity/TeamReporting/HowTo> are a > really good habit to get into for all of us! But for LoCo Teams it's > especially good. It will help you keep track of your events and > possibly if you aren't doing much highlight this to you as you'll see > events decreasing which isn't a good sign of an active team. > > What is a good idea is to appoint one person to do up the team report > each month. Mail the team saying the report has been created and let > people add any other snippets of information they may not have heard > about. This is a great way to stimulate conversation but also means > it's not just down to one person to add content. > > Try and do your report a week before it's due to allow for any issues, > such as people going away or not having it done on time. Or allow for > people to blog/upload photos of a past event so it can be included in > the report. > > Don't forget to write up a summary of past events, link to these on the > report, link to photos. We appreciate not everyone is on planet Ubuntu, > using the reports this way is a great way to learn more about the events > that are happening. > > Leading by example, as we know we can't ask folks to do monthly reports > without doing them ourselves, here is the July report from the LoCo > Council <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams/LoCoCouncil/TeamReports/10/July> > > Laura > > -- > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski > http://www.lczajkowski.com > Skype: lauraczajkowski > > > > -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
